Control review — Kevin Spacey’s voice can’t save this indie film

★★☆☆☆
It was always the voice with Kevin Spacey. Yes, the hangdog countenance helped, but it was those purring tones, caramel smooth, that ultimately defined his performance style, giving us the soothing narration of American Beauty, the softly spoken psychopath in Seven and the faux-friendly AI in Moon. It is perhaps appropriate, then, that Spacey’s ostensible “return” to cinema, post-legal battles, in this no-budget UK indie, should arrive in the form of a character never seen but heard, and known only as The Voice.

“This cannot be made right, this cannot be undone!” is a typical line from The Voice, who announces himself as an avenging angel, and someone fixated on a great personal injustice from which he has only recently recovered. That